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Soaring through cyberspace in search of interesting stuff on Indiana basketball.

CBSSports.com
Gary Parrish writes, "John Calipari doesn't want anything more to do with Assembly Hall. Now Roy Williams understands why. ... Now that it's over and I've had time to digest what I witnessed, I feel comfortable telling you that Indiana will go far and North Carolina has a long way to go. Turns out, what we saw from UNC in that loss to Butler in Maui last week wasn't just some fluky performance. The Tar Heels have now been worked by a small school from Indiana and by the biggest school in Indiana in a span of eight days."

Sporting News
Mike DeCourcy writes that at the start of the second half, Will Sheehey "might not even have been on the floor if Crean had fielded his lineup by rote, as so many coaches do: Same starters in the second half as the first. We see this in almost every game. Crean said he liked how Sheehey had defended McAdoo in the final minutes before the break and wanted to see more of it. And surely he did. ... As the Hoosiers pursued that insurmountable lead, they revealed so much of what separates them from other NCAA championship contenders: No other team has such a vast array of capable scorers and such a variety."

ESPN.com
Andy Katz writes, "Carolina came out with a sense of urgency, unlike in its loss to Butler in the Maui Invitational semifinals Nov. 20. But the last four minutes of Tuesday's first half and the beginning of the second were as lopsided as Williams has seen in his tenure, or at least as much as that humbling 33-point loss to Florida State in January."

Yahoo Sports
Jeff Eisenberg writes, "What coach in his right mind would agree to play a non-conference game against Indiana at Assembly Hall these days when he has a better chance of taking Charlize Theron out to dinner than getting a road win against the Hoosiers?"

Raleigh News & Observer
Andrew Carter writes, " It wasn't just Cody Zeller's dominance in the interior, or UNC's inability to box out the Hoosiers and eliminate second-chance opportunities. It wasn't just that Indiana continually beat Tar Heels defenders down the court for easy baskets, or that No. 14 UNC ... made just one of eight 3-point attempts. It was all of those things, and others, that led to UNC's most lopsided nonconference defeat during coach Roy Williams' 10 seasons."

Inside the Hall
Ryan Corazza writes, "And now, the elephant in the room: Christian Watford. There's plenty of season left to change the narrative. But he continues to be a player that is hot and cold, up and down. Watford tallied zero points, three rebounds and two turnovers in the first half. Tom Crean failed to start him in the second half. He didn't enter until the 14:41 mark. Watford seemed to force the issue immediately; his first touch was a drive off the perimeter in which he hit only the backboard. Watford did throw down a strong dunk in the second half, but it was his only two points of the night. He finished 1-of-9."

Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
Pete DiPrimo writes, "The talkative Oladipo radiates you-can't-beat-us confidence that shouldn't be confused with cockiness. Three straight 20-loss seasons still fuel the fire -- and perspective. ... How much more can a 7-0 team do? It has won by at least 10 points in every game, disrupting with defense like it hasn't since former coach Bob Knight ruled the sport."

ESPN.com
Myron Medcalf writes, "With every offensive wave that turned a competitive encounter into an embarrassment for the visitors, (the crowd's) pitch changed. They no longer screamed like stunned observers surprised by the turn of a program that won just three Big Ten games a few years ago. They began to react like a crowd that expected victory, even against a perennial titan."